tt move vs null move

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Sven
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Re: tt move vs null move

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nionita wrote:
nionita wrote:Barbarossa does null move at d==1. I just made a branch to try this. But it will take days until I can see significant Elo results. I will report when I have them.
Now the results are clear: doing null move for d >= 2 brings 9 Elo (after 52000 games) in Barbarossa.
So doing null move also at d == 1 loses 9 Elo points for Barbarossa, do I get this right?
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Re: tt move vs null move

Post by nionita »

Sven wrote:
nionita wrote:
nionita wrote:Barbarossa does null move at d==1. I just made a branch to try this. But it will take days until I can see significant Elo results. I will report when I have them.
Now the results are clear: doing null move for d >= 2 brings 9 Elo (after 52000 games) in Barbarossa.
So doing null move also at d == 1 loses 9 Elo points for Barbarossa, do I get this right?
Exactly.